Charlyne Yi is Awkward-Cool

Charlyne Yi stars with Superbad's Michael Cera in Paper Heart, a mocumentary/fictional love story. We reviewed the sweet film after its limited release last Friday and previewed it when it premiered at Sundance. Charlyne, who got her breakthrough in Hollywood playing a stoned girlfriend in Knocked Up, has recently faced incessant questions about her "relationship" with Michael, which is depicted in the new film and was widely believed to be a real romance. More recently, rumors spread that they broke up and that Michael consequently avoided the premiere last week. However, Charlyne set the record straight once and for all with The Daily Beast:

“We were never together,” Charlyne said. “If we were, I’d like to know when that was. And thank God, because it would be devastating to promote this film if I was heartbroken.

“We cast Michael—it was all improvised. When we are going on these awkward dates, it wasn’t intended that way, we just didn’t know what to say so we talked about mundane stuff like food. Like what real people do.”

Charlyne admitted in the interview that she knows little about love.

“That’s why I decided to make this movie. I was working at a Wal-Mart in Fontana, California, and commuting to Los Angeles to do [comedy] shows. And I was hanging around with all these older men who hadn’t really found love yet and it depressed me. And I don’t drink or go to bars, so I remember thinking, how am I ever going to meet anyone? You can’t exactly clink a Shirley Temple and meet guys.”

Watch a video of the refreshingly weird Charlyne on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brian below. Awkward happens. It's about time Hollywood got a dose of it.